[Verbotene Judentexte]

The file contains material of banned Jewish literature which was submitted to the office of State Commissioner Hans Hinkel. Everything "Un-German", which was literature viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism or written by Jewish authors, was banned. Essays, lectures, poems, play scripts, short stories and anecdotes all written in German by several known and unknown authors can be seen. The official list of banned authors was published by Hinkel. Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of pacifist or communist sympathies or suspicion thereof. Hans Hinkel, the Reich Minister for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda explained in an interview how hard is was and still is to urge the liquidation of culture-Jews on. In his words is was one of the hardest task of the domestic duty in the third Reich. Because it was not just the challenge to liquidate all the visible Jews in the cultural sphere but also the Jews working behind the scenes. The foreign infiltration of Jews in the cultural sphere had to be stopped to make place for the German culture. That is why not only the cultural-Jews had to disappear but also their works had to be banned.